On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:50:24AM +0100, Janet McKnight wrote:
I'm assuming it will be mostly standard reasons, select from
- phoned them up
- walked past & saw it
- saw an email/blogpost/tweet/etc from them
- ...other (free text)
Yes - I think actually the third of those might be best put in the free text field, especially if the field accepted wiki-formatting, so you could then link to the blogpost/tweet.
On Thu 31 May 2012, David Cantrell david@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
the obvious ones missing from that list are "I went in and spent some money" and "I work there" :-)
I would like to have some kind of wording that subsumes these under the same heading as "walked past and saw it" - possibly "I was there in person" or something? I would like the wording to emphasise that you have to see the place _actually open_ for it to count as confirmation.
The London guide already has (in plain text, I think, not in DB fields) info on when opening times were checked and when it was last confirmed to still exist. eg ...
http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Balham_Bowls_Club,_SW12_8QX
which says (at the moment) "Last visited by DrHyde, March 2011. Opening hours taken from the Balham Bowls Club website, December 2011". I think there's value in this.
Yep, that's in plain text on RGL. It's in its own div, which allows programmatic manipulation (with a bit of screenscraping and fiddling).
I usually like to have the opening hours provenance attached to the opening hours, somehow, as well. My latest OpenGuides project (launching on 1 August!) has the provenance in the opening hours field, e.g. the metadata display looks like this:
Address: 104 Tamworth Road, CR0 1XX (map) (osm) (gmap) (streetview) Opening Hours: 6:30am-6pm Mon-Sun (taken from A-board opposite cafe, August 2011) Categories: British Food, Cafes, Eat-In Food Locales: Croydon, Tamworth Road
i.e. when I added that page, I typed "6:30am-6pm Mon-Sun (taken from A-board opposite cafe, August 2011)" in the "Opening hours" box on the edit form.
Kake